ON SPLITTING OF THE GENUS NOTOCUPES (COLEOPTERA: ARCHOSTEMATA): NEW DATA ON MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY Author Strelnikova, O. D. Author Yan, E. V. text Far Eastern Entomologist 2023 2023-11-30 488 1 28 http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.488.1 journal article 10.25221/fee.488.1 2713-2196 365BADCC-23BA-4494-B45C-73B1C42706E4 Suborder Archostemata REMARKS. Position of the fossil genus Notocupes and related genera within families of suborder Archostemata is still uncertain. There are two points of view regarding the taxonomic status of the family Ommatidae : treating it as a subfamily of Cupedidae (Kirejtshuk et al ., 2016; Jarzembowski et al ., 2016, 2017, 2019; Kirejtshuk, 2020, 2021) and as a separate family (Lawrence, 1999; Tan et al ., 2006, 2012; Tihelka et al ., 2019 ; Jiang et al ., 2020; Strelnikova & Yan, 2021, 2023). There is also a suggestion to placed Notocupes and related genera into a separate family Notocupedidae (Li et al ., 2023a, b). Thus, Notocupes should be used without spe- cifying the family (Li et al ., 2023a) until clear diagnoses for the families discussed that can be applied to fossil material will be formulated.